Editor's note

Intrigued about the growing field of artificial intelligence and learned creativity, I asked ChatGPT to write me a poem.

I instructed it to write a poem 'of eight lines in free verse style about soor plooms.' I added that 'the poem should not follow any rhyming scheme or metric pattern. The poem should avoid uncommon words and be written in a friendly, conversational style.'

After regenerating the response a few times and (unsuccessfully) begging it to at least please stop rhyming, this was the result. The poem hasn't been edited in any way other than to amend US English spellings and remove initial capitals from some lines.